Re: gzcompress/gzdeflate default compression level?

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 03:27 pm, David T-G wrote: > Gerard -- > > ...and then Gerard Samuel said... > % > % The docs do not state what the defaults are, and from tests, > % it seems the values 4 - 9 return the same output as with no value, > % on the string I tested with. > > With what sort of data are you working? How are you gzipping (PEAR > module, class, system call, ...)? Right now, Im compressing large serialized strings using the php functions gzcompress/gzdeflate. > > % Does anyone know what the default compression levels are? > > My gzip man page says it's -6; I'd suspect it would be the same for any > library call. Didn't think to check man pages, but it says the same here, so I guess its a good assumption... Thanks